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President Obama touched down in Cuba on Sunday, becoming the first American leader to visit in nearly nine decades. His trip, the result of a stunning policy reversal 15 months ago, holds the potential to forge closer ties between longtime adversaries and exorcise one of the last ghosts of the Cold War.

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has nominated the first female in US military history to lead a combatant command.

General Lori Robinson has been nominated to lead the US Northern Command, Mr Carter announced on Friday.

Belgian officials say they have apprehended one of the Paris suspects Salah Abdeslam after a shoot-out.

Officials say Abdeslam, who has been on the run since the November attacks, was wounded in the leg as police moved in on a flat in the Molenbeek area.

US President Barack Obama has nominated Merrick Garland, an appellate court judge and former prosecutor, to the Supreme Court.

In an address from the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday, Obama emphasised Garland's readiness for the job and history of support from both Republicans and Democrats.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff has appointed her predecessor Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva as chief of staff, according to a senior Congress official.

It is a move that could help Lula avoid possible detention in expanding corruption investigation that have now touched the top of Brazil's political leadership.

North Korea has sentenced an American college student to 15 years’ hard labour after finding him guilty of “crimes against the state”, in a ruling that is certain to increase tensions with Washington.

Vigilante hacker group Anonymous declared "total war" on Donald Trump, ratcheting up its offensive against the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.

In the wake of violent attacks at a beach resort in Ivory Coast which claimed 18 lives including three Ivorian Special Forces personnel and three of the attackers, Al Qaeda’s North African branch has claimed responsibility citing France’s attacks against Islamist militants in the Sahel region as motivation.

Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute as his lawsuit against Norway opened, confirming fears he would use it to grandstand his extremist views.

NBC reporter Katy Tur has confirmed various local media sources’ initial reports that investigators in North Carolina may charge Trump with “inciting a riot” after the events of his Fayetteville Rally, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s office.

James Troup boldly went to Donald Trump’s Dayton, Ohio, rally last weekend to silently observe the crowd’s response to Trump’s rhetoric and people of color within the audience. Troup’s account of his experience is going viral.

Dr. Ben Carson has just made a hypocrite of himself and done great damage to the country by endorsing the moral monster, Donald Trump. Carson has spent an entire campaign pleading for honor and decency and decorum, only to endorse a man who is the crassest, most vulgar, most deceitful person in the race — a man who has repeatedly attacked in the most vicious ways, and lied about, every other candidate in the race.

All of the nation’s leading pollsters predicted Hillary Clinton to win Michigan by massive margins. And all of them were proven wrong on Tuesday night.

In a revealing tweet, The Intercept‘s Glenn Greenwald showed the aggregate polling averages for the Michigan Democratic Primary according to RealClearPolitics. As recently as March 6, a Fox 2 Detroit poll had Hillary Clinton winning by 37 points. ARG predicted Clinton to win by 24 points in a poll conducted between March 4 and March 5: